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This Week: June 17-24

Monday June 17, 2013

This Week: TV | Film | Video | Hardcovers | Paperbacks |


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This Week: TV
The premiere of the last round of Futurama episodes, plus much more. Read more...

This Week: Film
Some cuddly monsters go to college, while some rather less cuddly zombies bring about a planet-wide fight for survival. Read more...

This Week: Video
A bright-eyed farmer awakens a war with giants, a magic teapot drives a damaged couple to avarice, and a musical sci-fi spoof complete with a Tor Johnson lookalike. Read more...

This Week: Hardcovers
A Terry Pratchett-Stephen Baxter collaboration, plus trapeze artists, cyborgs, a 50-foot telepathic merman, mind control, and graphic novels featuring Pacific Rim monsters, Star Trek heroes, future Skywalkers, sad-eyed Parisian children, and Wolverine. Read more...

This Week: Paperbacks
Newly released paperbacks in science-fiction and fantasy this week include books by Mark Clark, Douglas Nicholas, Paul Melko, Greg Cox, and more. Read more...

Tags: Monsters University, Jack the Giant Slayer, Pacific Rim
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This Week: TV (June 17-24)

Monday June 17, 2013

This Week: TV | Film | Video | Hardcovers | Paperbacks |

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A scene from "Fry and Leela's Big Fling," one of two new episodes kicking off the final season of Futurama this week.


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This Week's TV Listings

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TELEVISION—New episodes this week from:

 Continuum,
 Defiance,
 Falling Skies,
 Futurama (return),
 Primeval: New World,
 Sinbad,
 666 Park Avenue (yes, really),
 Teen Wolf,
 True Blood,
 Warehouse 13.

Synopses below the jump. For details see the listings (regular or alphabetical). For sci-fi/fantasy movies on TV this week go to movie listings.

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This Week: June 10-17

Monday June 10, 2013

This Week: TV | Film | Video | Hardcovers | Paperbacks |


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This Week: TV
The season premiere of True Blood, plus lots more going on. Read more...

This Week: Film
The end of the world, as plotted by Zod or as experienced by Seth Rogen playing himself. Imagine if they both existed in the same universe. Read more...

This Week: Video
Lots and lots of loud CGI explosions and calculated visual strangeness, from Oz to medieval fairy tale land to an Word War II Navy destroyer misplaced by a few decades. Read more...

This Week: Hardcovers
This week in new hardcovers: The latest from Elizabeth Moon, plus collections of gay speculative fiction, early Verne SF classics, and essays on the influence of Lovecraft; graphic novel releases under the New Batman, Spider-Man 2099; a book on Ray Palmer's impact on SF pulp; and much more. Read more...

This Week: Paperbacks
Newly released paperbacks in science-fiction and fantasy this week include books by Guy Adams, Danny Birt, Elspeth Cooper, Philip Jose Farmer, Jasper Kent, Will McIntosh, Felix J Palma, Daniel B Royer, Jera Publishing, Kevin Royer, Sarah Zettel, and more. Read more...

Tags: Man of Steel, Oz The Great and Powerful, Limits of Power
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This Week: TV (June 10-17)

Monday June 10, 2013

This Week: TV | Film | Video | Hardcovers | Paperbacks |

Even with all the vampire stuff that's out there, you can always tell when it's (I)True Blood(/i).

Even with all the vampire stuff that's out there, you can always tell when it's True Blood.


© HBO

This Week's TV Listings

 Next New Episodes
 Listings By Date
 Listings by Show Name
 Movies on TV

TELEVISION—New episodes this week from:

 Continuum,
 Defiance,
 Falling Skies,
 Teen Wolf,
 True Blood (season premiere!),
 Warehouse 13.

Guest stars this week include Brian J. Smith on Defiance; Rutger Hauer, Robert Patrick, Arliss Howard and more on True Blood.

Synopses below the jump. For details see the listings (regular or alphabetical). For sci-fi/fantasy movies on TV this week go to movie listings.

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